CIA — Russia was trying to help Trump win White House

Might as well get this one started. We might be discussing this for a while ...

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The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter.

Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton’s chances.

“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. “That’s the consensus view.”

I wonder how many sharing this actually read the Washington Post piece in full. Summation: Weak propaganda. Nameless “conduits,” and this choice quote: “intelligence agencies do not have specific intelligence showing officials in the Kremlin “directing” the identified individuals to pass the Democratic emails to WikiLeaks, a second senior U.S. official said. Those actors, according to the official, were “one step” removed from the Russian government, rather than government employees.” Read the full piece, it’s laughable. This qualifies as quote unquote “fake news.”

Except that the result was to get an even more corrupt person into the office.

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The blame for Hillary's loss rests squarely on her own shoulders. Biden, or really any reasonable Democrat, would've had no problem defeating Trump. It was Hillary's own track record, campaign strategy, and positions that weren't good enough, and that can't be blamed on Russia.

The blame for Hillary's loss rests squarely on her own shoulders. Biden, or really any reasonable Democrat, would've had no problem defeating Trump. It was Hillary's own track record, campaign strategy, and positions that weren't good enough, and that can't be blamed on Russia.

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Hillary should be fed to the metaphorical woodchipper, there's no doubt about that, but I'll hold off my celebrations until and unless the Gilded Buffoon is booted out of office.

WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances and promote Donald J. Trump, according to senior administration officials.

They based that conclusion, in part, on another finding — which they say was also reached with high confidence — that the Russians hacked the Republican National Committee’s computer systems in addition to their attacks on Democratic organizations, but did not release whatever information they gleaned from the Republican networks.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/obama-russia-election-hack.html?

Republicans have a different explanation for why no documents from their networks were ever released. Over the past several months, officials from the Republican committee have consistently said that their networks were not compromised, asserting that only the accounts of individual Republicans were attacked. On Friday, a senior committee official said he had no comment.

WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances and promote Donald J. Trump, according to senior administration officials.

They based that conclusion, in part, on another finding — which they say was also reached with high confidence — that the Russians hacked the Republican National Committee’s computer systems in addition to their attacks on Democratic organizations, but did not release whatever information they gleaned from the Republican networks.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/obama-russia-election-hack.html?

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No intelligence that the Russian government directed any of this. None. P-R-O-P-A-G-A-N-D-A.

Denial is not just a symptom of an all night bender. Just admit it your boy Trump is dirty.

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Trump is dirty? Funny, because he and Gen. Flynn are going to immediately end Obama and CIA/“Deep State” treason program of arming al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria in conspiracy with 9/11 Saudis (that is one main reason CIA/“Deep State” is trying to undermine him, i.e. with this weak propaganda (and in other ways)). For example, Trump met with Tulsi Gabbard recently at Trump Tower to speak about Syria, you should hear what she had to say yesterday about it on CNN with Jake Tapper: She told Jake Tapper right to his face that Obama and CIA are arming al-Qaeda and ISIS. Anyway, back to the main point of this thread, from a real journalist who still has integrity:

Liberals Will Cite Russian Hacking To Push For An Electoral College Coup

Now that the Washington Post is out with another “Russian hacking” non-story, the pressure campaign will intensify, and liberals will attempt to goad the Electoral College into interceding against Trump. It really needs to be repeated over and over again that no evidence has yet been presented that the Russian government interfered in the US election on behalf of Trump. Lots of people suddenly believe that as a matter of conventional wisdom, because they keep hearing it repeated uncritically, but it remains the case that no direct evidence has ever been shown to the public. Instead, liberals are cheering CIA’s apparent judgment that Russia hacked the election for Trump. Nevermind that this information was conveyed anonymously, without attribution, to the Washington Post by way of selective leaks. And forget the CIA’s horrendous record of duplicity and wickedness. No, because it is seen to harm Trump, we must all stand up and celebrate this development.​

Denial is not just a symptom of an all night bender. Just admit it your boy Trump is dirty.

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Actually he is right. If you'd look into things a little further than taking your Dem buddy's words for everything, you'd know that they aren't able to factually state that Russia absolutely did it. There is an interview with a congressman who was head of intel (something or other) who was saying that Russia was... yada yada, and when asked to speak into the camera and tell the American people that Russia, in fact, are surely the ones who hacked FOR Trump, he couldn't do it. Instead, he double spoke and did all that political talk. It was quite pathetic.

Aside from the interview, there is no solid intel that proves Russia did it. "None".

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